Archive 2023

Cyprus-based Multimarine Services Ltd this week announced that it has marked a significant achievement with the successful construction of a floating electrical hub, heralding the island’s entrance into the ...

Private equity firm Roark Capital agreed on Thursday to buy Subway, in a deal that people familiar with the matter said values the US sandwich chain at up to $9.55 billion, ...

Sikorsky, a unit of Lockheed Martin (LMT.N), said on Thursday it was awarded a $2.7 billion contract by the US Navy to build 35 additional CH-53K helicopters. The CH-53K ...

The interior and labour ministries are joining forces to combat illegal employment of third-country nationals and reduce irregular migration this month. Officials have identified 83 cases of illegal employment of third-country ...

The gathering of Cypriots of the diaspora in Cyprus has become an August fixture. This week’s Ninth World Conference of Expatriate Cypriots has attracted close to 280 participants and was ...

A stampede of sports fans trying to enter Madagascar’s national stadium for the opening ceremony of the Indian Ocean Island Games has killed 12 and injured around 80, the prime minister ...

Forty-nine women kidnapped by Boko Haram earlier in the week near Maiduguri, in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, regained their freedom early on Friday after a state official paid a ...

USSRoosevelt guided-missile destroyer arrived for a port call to Larnaca, it emerged on Friday. US Ambassador to Cyprus Julie Fisher said in a post on Platform X (Twitter) that it ...

Chairman of the US Senate External Relations Committee, Robert Menendez was awarded on Friday the title of honorary citizen of the city of Paphos and presented with the key to ...

Parties discussed aspects of the Cyprus problem with diasporic populations during the last day of the annual diaspora conference in Nicosia. Representatives from the main political parties received questions by ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday defended comments by his far-right national security minister that had sparked a row with U.S. supermodel Bella Hadid and drawn condemnation as ...

An Intercity bus burst into flames at Limassol port on Friday, forcing three passengers to jump out of the windows to escape the fire. The vehicle was parked but operating, ...

The open-air film screenings the Nicosia Municipality has been organising all summer long are set to continue throughout August and September, bringing more cinema nights to the heart of the ...

The director of the British Museum said on Friday he would step down after admitting to failings in its investigation into the theft of items from its collection. Hartwig Fischer, ...

Hotel workers union on Friday demanded an amendment to the industry’s wages decree so the indexation allowance be calculated automatically. Syxka-Peo union issued a statement welcoming the decree incorporating ...

The Kremlin said that Western suggestions Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin had been killed on its orders were an “absolute lie” while declining to definitively confirm his death, citing the ...

Mohamed Salah is not for sale and Liverpool have not received any offer from Saudi Arabian club Al-Ittihad, manager Juergen Klopp said on Friday. British media reported on Thursday that ...

The audit office has written to EU bodies as well as Cypriot officials raising concerns over the interconnector project, it emerged on Friday. The letter details a lack of transparency ...

School textbooks to be used in the north in the upcoming academic year have been criticised by teachers for containing “non-secular” content. Rifat Can, a geography teacher based in the ...

The number of new asylum applications in Cyprus in May was down 61 per cent compared to the same months last year, according to the European Union’s statistical agency Eurostat. ...

Some foreign companies trying to exit Russia are facing a big jump in costs as Moscow is demanding bigger discounts on the price tags of assets they want to sell, ...

Where do you live? I live in Marylebone, London with my flat mate Daniel. My cat Behlül will join us from Cyprus soon! What did you have for breakfast? ...

A report into the “multi-year delay” in installing lifts in government-owned apartment buildings has been released by Human Rights Commissioner Maria Stylianou Lottides. The report highlights the impact on elderly ...

Three political parties have released statements calling on the government to reinstate the fuel subsidy that was scrapped on July 1, causing an 8.3 cent per litre price rise for consumers. Disy ...